Education (Assessment Arrangements for Key Stages 1 and 2) Order (Northern Ireland) 1996

Interpretation

3.  In this Order—

“assessment unit” means a piece of work, provided by the Council, to be carried out by a pupil for the purpose of assisting a teacher to ascertain what the pupil has achieved in relation to one or more attainment targets in a relevant subject;

“attainment target” means an attainment target in a relevant subject specified in the Curriculum (Programmes of Study and Attainment Targets at Key Stages 1 and 2) Order (Northern Ireland) 1996(1);

“the Council” means the Northern Ireland Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment(2);

“the Assessment Document” means the document published by Her Majesty’s Stationery Office entitled “Assessment Arrangements in Key Stages 1 and 2”(3);

“relevant subject” means—

(a)

subject to paragraph (b), English or Mathematics;

(b)

in relation to a pupil who is in an Irish speaking school, English, Irish or Mathematics;

“the 1989 Order” means the Education Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 1989.

(1)

S.R. 1996 No. 346

(2)

Established under S.I. 1989/2406 (N.I. 20) Article 17A as inserted by S.I. 1993/2810 (N.I. 12) Article 34

(3)

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